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Laws (surname)
Laws is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Annie Laws (1855–1927), American educator, clubwoman * Bolitha James Laws (1891–1958), United States federal judge * Brian Laws, (born 1961) English football manager and former player * David Laws (born 1965), British politician * David Laws (rugby league), rugby union and rugby league footballer of the 1980s in Great Britain * Don Laws (1929–2014), American figure skater and coach * Eloise Laws (born 1943), American jazz and R&B singer * George Malcolm Laws (1919–1994), American folklorist * Gilbert L. Laws (1838–1907), American politician, newspaper publisher and businessman * John Laws (born 1935), Australian radio presenter * John Laws (judge) (1945–2020), British retired judge * Johnny Laws (born 1943), American Chicago blues guitarist, singer and songwriter * Maury Laws (1923–2019), American television and film score composer * Michael Laws (born 1957), New Zealand politician, broadcaster, writer and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Annie Laws
Anna "Annie" Laws (January 20, 1855 – July 1, 1927) was an American educator, clubwoman, and philanthropist based in Cincinnati, Ohio. She was president of the International Kindergarten Union from 1903 to 1905. Early life and education Anna Laws was born in Cincinnati, the daughter of James Hedding Laws and Sarah Amelia Langdon Laws. She attended Miss Appleton's School. In 1924, she received an honorary master's degree in education from the University of Cincinnati, in recognition of her career in the field. Career Education Laws co-founded the Cincinnati Kindergarten Association in 1879; she was president of the association from 1901 to 1927. "No one in Cincinnati thinks about kindergartens without thinking of Miss Annie Laws," explained a local history in 1927. She was president of the International Kindergarten Union from 1903 to 1905, and chaired the Union's "Committee of Nineteen", working with other kindergarten movement leaders including Lucy Wheelock, Susan Blow, Patt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maury Laws
Maury Laws (December 6, 1923 – March 28, 2019) was an American television and film composer from Burlington, North Carolina. Biography In his teens, Laws performed in local country, jazz and dance bands as a singer and guitarist in his home state of North Carolina. His career was put on hold during World War II, in which he served in the Army. In 1964, he was hired as music director for the television production company Videocraft International (now known as Rankin/Bass), a post which he held for roughly 20 years. In this capacity, he conducted and scored music for a number of animated features, including ''The Hobbit (1977 film), The Hobbit'', ''Jack Frost (TV special), Jack Frost'', ''The Flight of Dragons'', ''The Daydreamer (film), The Daydreamer'', ''The Wacky World of Mother Goose'', ''Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town (film), Santa Claus Is Comin' To Town'', and ''Frosty the Snowman (TV program), Frosty the Snowman''. His most widely known work may be an adaptation of Jo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
English-language Surnames
English is a West Germanic languages, West Germanic language of the Indo-European language family, with its earliest forms spoken by the inhabitants of early medieval England. It is named after the Angles, one of the ancient Germanic peoples that migrated to the island of Great Britain. Existing on a dialect continuum with Scots language, Scots, and then closest related to the Low German, Low Saxon and Frisian languages, English is Genetic relationship (linguistics), genealogically West Germanic language, West Germanic. However, its vocabulary is also distinctively influenced by Langues d'oïl, dialects of France (about List of English words of French origin, 29% of Modern English words) and Latin (also about 29%), plus some grammar and a small amount of core vocabulary influenced by Old Norse (a North Germanic language). Speakers of English are called Anglophones. The earliest forms of English, collectively known as Old English, evolved from a group of West Germanic (Ingvae ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Law (surname)
Law is a surname, of English, Scottish, Cantonese, or Chinese origin. In Scotland, the surname means dweller at the low; as in a hill. Another origin of the surname is a contraction of Lawrence, or Lawson. Notable people with the surname Law Notable people with the surname Law include: *Acie Law IV (born 1985), American basketball player *Alfred Law (1860–1939), English politician * Alfred Law (cricketer) (1862–1919), English cricketer * Alice Easton Law (1870–1942), New Zealand music teacher for the visually impaired *Alvin Law (born 1960), Canadian motivational speaker * Andrew Law (other), several people *Annie Law (died 1889), conchologist * Benjamin Law (other), several people *Bernard Francis Law (1931-2017), former Archbishop of Boston *Bonar Law (1858–1923), British prime minister *Brian Law (born 1970), Welsh footballer *Evander M. Law (1836–1920), general in the Confederate States Army *Denis Law (born 1940), Scottish footballer *Derek Law ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stephen Laws
Sir Stephen Charles Laws, is a British lawyer and civil servant who served as the First Parliamentary Counsel between 2006 and 2012. Laws read law at Bristol, graduating in 1972. He was the first in his family to go to University. After a year lecturing at Bristol, Laws was called to the Bar at Middle Temple, and following pupillage and a brief period practising, he joined the Home Office in 1975 as a legal assistant. He transferred to the Office of the Parliamentary Counsel the next year, and excepting two secondments to the Law Commission, stayed there until his retirement, rising first to Deputy Parliamentary Counsel in 1985, and then Parliamentary Counsel in 1991. He replaced Sir Geoffrey Bowman as First Parliamentary Counsel in 2006. As head of the Office of the Parliamentary Counsel, Laws was responsible for the drafting of all the government legislation which is laid before Parliament. Alongside the Treasury Solicitor and the Director of Public Prosecutions, Laws was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sharon Laws
Sharon Laws (7 July 1974 – 16 December 2017) was a British professional cyclist and environmental consultant. Early life Laws was born in Nairobi, Kenya, grew up in Bourton-on-the-Water, Gloucestershire and lived in Uganda, South Africa, Zimbabwe and the United Kingdom. She gained an MSc in conservation and worked both before and during her cycling career as an environmental consultant to organisations including the British Government, the United Nations and for mining company Rio Tinto in Australia. Cycling career Laws previously competed in adventure racing and endurance mountain biking. She won the eight-day Absa Cape Epic mountain-bike race in South Africa in 2004 with partner Hanlie Booyens. She then competed again with Booyens in the Women's Category in 2009, once again claiming 1st prize. She began riding on the road to train for mountain biking and her form on the road was confirmed when she moved to Australia. She was approached to ride for Australia after c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert E
The name Robert is an ancient Germanic given name, from Proto-Germanic "fame" and "bright" (''Hrōþiberhtaz''). Compare Old Dutch ''Robrecht'' and Old High German ''Hrodebert'' (a compound of '' Hruod'' ( non, Hróðr) "fame, glory, honour, praise, renown" and ''berht'' "bright, light, shining"). It is the second most frequently used given name of ancient Germanic origin. It is also in use as a surname. Another commonly used form of the name is Rupert. After becoming widely used in Continental Europe it entered England in its Old French form ''Robert'', where an Old English cognate form (''Hrēodbēorht'', ''Hrodberht'', ''Hrēodbēorð'', ''Hrœdbœrð'', ''Hrœdberð'', ''Hrōðberχtŕ'') had existed before the Norman Conquest. The feminine version is Roberta. The Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish form is Roberto. Robert is also a common name in many Germanic languages, including English, German, Dutch, Norwegian, Swedish, Scots, Danish, and Icelandic. It can be use ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Laws
Robert Laws FRGS FRSGS (1851–1934) was a Scottish missionary who headed the Livingstonia mission in the Nyasaland Protectorate (now Malawi) for more than 50 years. The mission played a crucial role in educating Africans during the colonial era. It emphasized skills with which the pupils could become self-sufficient in trade, agriculture or industry as opposed to working as subordinates to European settlers. Laws supported the aspirations of political leaders such as Simon Muhango and Levi Zililo Mumba, both educated at Livingstonia schools. Early years Robert Laws was born in 1851 in the Mannofield district of Aberdeen, Scotland, to religious family. His father, Robert Laws senior of Old Aberdeen, was a cabinetmaker and his mother, Christiana née Cruikshank of Kidshill in Buchan, Aberdeenshire, both attended St Nicholas Lane United Presbyterian Church, Aberdeen. His mother, Christiana, has been described as having "a calm and sunny temperament, sound judgement, and gentle w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Laws
Richard Maitland Laws (23 April 1926 – 7 October 2014) was Director of the British Antarctic Survey from 1973 to 1987; Master of St Edmund's College, Cambridge, from 1985 to 1996 and Secretary of the Zoological Society of London. Education and early life Laws was born in Whitley Bay, Northumberland and educated at Dame Allan's School, Newcastle upon Tyne and St Catharine's College, Cambridge, where he was an Open Scholar. Career Laws started his career as a zoologist on the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey in 1947, where he investigated the ecology of elephant seals in the South Orkney Islands and South Georgia. These formed the subject of his 1953 Cambridge PhD. After spending a season as a whaling inspector, he joined the national Institute of Oceanography (1955–61) where he studied great whales and elephant seals. Outside Antarctica, he was also an expert on the large African mammals. In 1960, he was appointed Director of the Nuffield Unit of Tropical Anima ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Priscilla Laws
Priscilla Watson Laws (born 1940) is an American physics educator, known for her work in activity-based physics education. She is a research professor of physics at Dickinson College. Education and career Laws majored in physics, with a minor in mathematics, at Reed College, graduating in 1961. She did her graduate studies at Bryn Mawr College, earning a master's degree in experimental nuclear physics in 1963 and completing her Ph.D. in theoretical nuclear physics in 1966. She joined the Dickinson College faculty as an assistant professor of physics in 1965, and was tenured as an associate professor in 1970. She was promoted to full professor in 1979, and chaired the Department of Physics and Astronomy in 1982 and 1983. She retired as a regular-rank faculty member in 2002, becoming a research professor of physics at Dickinson. Research and books Initially, in her research at Dickinson College, Laws focused on the health applications and safety of radiography and X-rays, publis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Laws
Michael Laws (born 1957) is a New Zealand politician, broadcaster and writer. Laws was a Member of Parliament for six years, starting in 1990, initially for the National Party. In Parliament he voted against his party on multiple occasions and in 1996 defected to the newly founded New Zealand First party, but resigned Parliament the same year following a scandal in which he selected a company part-owned by his wife for a government contract. Laws has also been a media personality, working as a Radio Live morning talkback host and a longstanding ''The Sunday Star-Times'' columnist. Laws has held several roles in local government since 1995. He has been elected as a councillor to Napier City Council (1995–1996), Whanganui District Council (2013–2014) and Otago Regional Council (2016 – present), as a member of Whanganui District Health Board, and as Mayor of Whanganui (2004–2010). Early life Laws was born in Wairoa on 26 June 1957. He moved with his parents to Whang ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Johnny Laws
Johnny Laws (born January 12, 1943) is an American Chicago blues guitarist, singer and songwriter. A regular performer for over half a century in Chicago's South Side clubs, Laws has released two albums, including ''Burnin' in My Soul'', of which ''Blues & Rhythm'' magazine in November 1999 noted, "It's a real shame that Johnny Laws has been unjustly ignored in the past... This is an enjoyable CD... Full marks to those folks at Electro-Fi." His version of McKinley Mitchell's "End of the Rainbow" demonstrates his versatility and vocal range. In an April 1999 editorial leader, the ''Toronto Star'' remarked that "South Side Chicago fave Johnny Laws... swinning plaudits for his seductive, soul-drenched blues." Life and career Laws was born in Chicago, Illinois, and has remained there all his life. He has played and performed on the South Side of Chicago since the mid-1960s, remaining largely a local cult favorite for decades. He learned his Chicago blues craft mainly from liste ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
